Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
quick
Usage: adj hurrying, speedy, swift, hastening
Maher means “hasteth” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4118 — pleistos (“very great”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4118 מַהֵר (maher) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. maher (mah-hare') adj. 1. (properly) hurrying 2. hence (adverbially) in a hurry It has 17 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include quickly, hastily, soon, once, and hence. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
maher (mah-hare') adj. 1. (properly) hurrying 2. hence (adverbially) in a hurry [from H4116] KJV: hasteth, hastily, at once, quickly, soon, speedily, suddenly. Root(s): H4116
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4118. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
quick
Usage: adj hurrying, speedy, swift, hastening
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render maher, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4118.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4118, grouped by book.
Maher (Strong's H4118) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "hasteth". maher (mah-hare') adj. 1. (properly) hurrying 2. hence (adverbially) in a hurry
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H4118 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4118 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as quickly, hastily, soon, once, hence, and hast. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.